Man Booker prizewinner Hilary Mantel on Wolf Hall

This year's Man Booker prizewinner, Hilary Mantel, talks to Sarah Crown about her triumphant novel, Wolf Hall, how she came to admire her scheming hero Thomas Cromwell, and why she writes historical fiction

Hilary Mantel's reimagined life of Henry VIII's fixer, Thomas Cromwell, has won the 2009 Man Booker prize for fiction. The Guardian's literary editor, Claire Armitstead, discusses the novel with John Crace and Sarah Crown